Cash Found

[Bazile]

If someone finds some cash on the street , what does the law requires he/she to do with it ?

[dannyk13]

Chelle //hBecause if it's under a tenner you don't get labelled a thief //
OK, but theft is theft no matter what the amount.

[chelle7272]

Not in Germany danny, that's why it's different.
I answered a question (and you forgot the to cut and paste the:) )
I didn't give an opinion so no need to respond like that

[dannyk13]

Chelle,sorry if I have offended ypu, i was just pointing out that in UK law where theft is concerned the amount stolen is inconequential.Sorry once again if I have offended you.

[Gromit]

I have found money in the street a few times. The occasional note drifting in the wind is not worth me taking to the police station.
I found a wage packet on a Friday with a piddling small wage in it. Though it was out of my way, I took it to the Police station. Turned out to be owned by a relative related to a neighbour, and they praised my honesty for years afterwards.
My favourite story is finding a wallet in the road stuffed with cash. I opened it and found a bank card from my bank in my name What The Funicular? I thought it was a set up prank.

[Peter Pedant]

// but theft is theft no matter what the amount.//
foo but what he means is - theft - there is no de minimis rule
( puts up hand - please miss, who knew he was gonna use Latin or anuvva ancient forrin language?)

My neighbour was charged with criminal damage of a flowerpot - value 13/6

because they wanted to get a conviction ( at that time0
what the funicular ? ( please miss who knew he was gonna use AB slang to demean, ridicule and insult uvva ABers, Innocent they are miss)

25 st of fat misbehaving and off his meds that's why

[Peter Pedant]

and Grom grom - walletto wiv cash

Bus stop, innocent (me) waiting for bus,
clonk on floor
nice red leather wallet clunks on floor just like that !
like mine
it was mine

how dat do dat? I asked myself in broad darn sarf English

got on bus and photo's the other puntas at the stop because
butter fingered Thai/ROmani pick pockets - phew

wear really tight jeans now - which is kinda odd on a 75 y o
but I keep my moolah so so what if I look like a superannuated rent boy?

[Maydup]

DOB so that when they offer her a reward she can ID herself again.

I'm with Ken. Finders keepers unless I can ID the owner and be guaranteed the cash will find its way back to them.

[Bazile]

//My favourite story is finding a wallet in the road stuffed with cash. I opened it and found a bank card from my bank in my name What The Funicular? I thought it was a set up prank.//

Gromit
You had found your own wallet - or am i missing something there ?

[Peter Pedant]

yeah you are missing the standard AB one-liner
how it get dare den? how?

lots toread
it seems the only poss charge is - theft by finding
and you have to get around that - by showing that the loser intended to throw away - animus abandonandi (*)
and THAT depends on the circs...

(*) ter daah - you know I was gonna do that, didnt you. there is a presumption in english law that there is usually NO animus a.
that is why you can steal from dustbins ....

[davebro]

Horses for courses - I found a fiver outside Morrisons & pocketed it. At Aldi the checkout lady gave me change for £20 instead of the £10 I gave her. I pointed out her mistake cos I knew she would have to account for it.

[Peter Pedant]

Yeah finding keeping changes behaviour
One summer kids were always screaming and playing around a buddleia in the park. and one day a stranger handed me my wallet which the dog used to carry out to the buddleia
without the money

I never say the kids again

[Peter Pedant]

I always correct mis-changes
i dont think that is finding keeping
and yes the clerk gets screwed at cash-out

Restaurants - it is a simple " i want to come here again!"

O god no one reads my posts. I am watched reader ! 1987 - a complete stranger came up to me at a supermarket and said: "You put up a drip on my friends sixk baby when no one else could".
I only misbehave now in the columns of AB !

[davebro]

//"You put up a drip on my friends sixk baby when no one else could".//

Funny what people remember - I went for a job at a paint factory, being interviewed by the head chemist & the HR bloke. The HR bloke sez - "You once saved me from 3 bullies". I didn't remember him but I remembered the incident - on a visit back to see my primary school headmaster. I was about 13 & the HR bloke about 6 or 7 at the time.

I didn't get the job BTW!

[Peter Pedant]

not her - the fren' - actually I had an anxious discussion with - - the father, and neither leddy was present.

I am a good boy in public now - now screaming attack or sarcasm

Phone call to police about lardy dah- " you're the one who scraped X off the motorway five years ago" - more shock.

[Gromit]

Bazile
// You had found your own wallet - or am i missing something there ? //
I found a wallet in my own name that wasn’t mine. I have a fairly common first and second name, but had never uncounted anyone in the real world with my name.

I was waiting for a lift, and noticed a wallet in the road being run over by traffic. I retrieved it and found cards in my name. Exact spelling, same bank etc. but it wasn’t me.
After about 10 minutes, a taxi turned up and the driver got out, inspecting the road. It was his wallet. I gave him his wallet bulging with notes, and he just said thanks and drove away.

[davebro]

coincidences eh!

A friend called Susan was helping me decorate my new house. The phone rang & said "Hi Dave is Susan there?" I handed the phone to Susan but it turned out it was a wrong number!

[Gromit]

The moral of the story - when I have found large amounts of money and been honest, I have never made a penny.

[237SJ]

My friend's Mum found £1000 in rolled up bank notes (held together with an elastic band) in the street in Kensington. She figured it was either dropped by a drug dealer or rich Arab so she kept it.

[Peter Pedant]

My mudder - 1938 - with a friend found a bag wiv lotsa moolah in it. Obviously lost and obviously a lot
and handed it in to the Police
In swept a woman, who had lost it , took it up and said
" your reward will be in Heaven !"